God's strength helps with cancer battle

8:41 PM,
Oct. 11, 2012

Jackie Haynes

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Jackie Haynes

My breast cancer story, as with so many others', isn't really my story. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to support someone with breast cancer. For me, it has also taken standing firm in my faith. This, our story, begins in March 2002.

My family was emerging from the worst year of our lives. Our middle son, Cliff, had been killed in a freak accident one year prior. With support from family, friends, and our Graceway Baptist Church family, we were trying to settle into a new kind of normal. We had grown in faith the past 12 months while seeing what our mighty God could do to ...